News brands like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are turning to free Wi-Fi as a way to promote their content. In the lates example, Times readers can get 15 free stories a day while sitting in Starbucks. Read more »
Remember when Friendster was the hot social network, publishers doubted that ebooks would ever sell, and Netflix thought DVDs in red envelopes was the future? We do — that was that state of digital media when paidContent launched in 2002. Read more »
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz likes his coffee black and his politics nonpartisan. Last year, in a move to break gridlock in Washington, he launched a campaign urging CEOs to boycott political donations. Now he’s leading “Indivisible,” an initiative focused on job creation. Read more »
A comScore study of consumer behavior following exposure to marketing messages on Facebook shows that both fans and friends of fans are more likely to buy things after they see such messages, data that Facebook badly needs to prove the value of its social platform. Read more at GigaOM »
Buzz Bissinger should have been excited when Starbucks selected his Byliner e-single, “After Friday Night Lights,” as its free “pick of the week.” But then Amazon responded. Turns out being a Starbucks Pick of the Week is a mixed blessing for authors and publishers. Read more »
In a possible sign of trouble for the booming mobile payment industry, a semiconductor firm filed patent lawsuits against Starbucks (NSDQ: S… Read more »
Starbucks’ first e-book choice for its expanded pick-of-the-week program is The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern. Starbucks (NSDQ: SBUX) vis… Read more »
Do mobile operators have what it takes to be a killer force in the mobile advertising industry? Telefonica’s UK mobile operator O2 has recen… Read more »
Usually my e-mail from Starbucks (NSDQ: SBUX) is about the new reserve coffee or some other promo about the company’s products. But the mess… Read more »
A look at some of the top stories in mobile today:
» Motorola/Microsoft: Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility gets a setback in a paten… Read more »
Hollywood upstart TheWrap.com is getting a leading role with Reuters (NYSE: TRI). The wire service and the startup founded by Sharon Waxman… Read more »
Technically, Bookish doesn’t have any revenue stream yet. The joint venture of Hachette Book Group, Penguin Group (USA), and Simon & Schuste… Read more »
Three major publishers are behind the latest effort to boost print and digital book reading. Bookish, backed by Hachette Book Group, Penguin… Read more »
Google’s Android Marketplace, now home to more than 100,000 mobile apps, has fast become the top competitor to Apple’s App Store. But unlike… Read more »
Five days after Groupon’s Super Bowl ad debacle, the daily deals said it has heard enough and has pulledthe remaining ads. Read more »
Facebook today took one more step in its ownership of the mobile space: today it expanded its Facebook Deals service into five markets in Eu… Read more »
A great boost for wireless data here in the UK: mobile operator O2 has announced that it will be investing £10 milion ($16 million) in a Wi… Read more »
– Starbucks: Did the mobile money industry just get a caffeine jolt? The coffee chain Starbucks (NSDQ: SBUX) is today debuting a feature in… Read more »
SnagFilms, founded in 2008 by Ted Leonsis, has raised its first major outside capital: a $10 million round led by New Enterprise Associates… Read more »
Lots of about next-generation payment platforms today, and it’s only beginning to ramp up. Most of the news surrounded PayPal’s developer co… Read more »
In early 2006, Howard Schultz talked about the power of having a massive collection of Wi-Fi hotspots, declaring “Starbucks (NSDQ: SBUX) is… Read more »
A program in the UK puts to rest an overused example of what location-based services will be like in the future.
So far, one million O2 su… Read more »
Six months after McDonald’s attempted to woo Starbucks’ customers with the promise of free WiFi at its local franchises, the coffee bar chai… Read more »
Ken Sonenclar is a Managing Director at DeSilva + Phillips, LLC, a New York investment bank specializing in media.
After decades with less… Read more »
Starbucks is testing an iPhone app in Seattle and the Bay Area that links to a customer’s registered account — and includes a bar code that… Read more »
